Translation for "kirchenlatein" to english
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Das »Carmen apologeticum«, im Jahre 259 geschrieben, ist eine Sammlung von Sprüchen in den beliebten Hexametern, die hier manchmal gereimt sind und schon an das Kirchenlatein spätrer Zeiten erinnern.
The Carmen apologeticum, written in 259, is a collection of instructions, twisted into acrostics, in popular hexameters, with cæsuras introduced according to the heroic verse style, composed without regard to quantity or hiatus and often accompanied by such rhymes as the Church Latin would later supply in such abundance.
Trotz Jims allgemeinem Mangel an Frömmigkeit hatte er nicht einen Gutteil seiner akademischen Zeit darauf verwandt, mittelalterliches Kirchenlatein zu lernen, um nun das gottesfürchtige »Der Herr sei mit euch« nicht verstehen und darauf antworten zu können.
In spite of Jim’s general lack of religion, he had not spent a good chunk of his graduate time learning medieval church Latin without being able to understand and respond to the friar’s pious, “The Lord be with you.”
Er konnte Latein lesen und verstehen, wenn es in den Lettern des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts gedruckt war, und recht gut Kirchenlatein sprechen, aber die im Mittelalter üblichen verschnörkelten Buchstaben machten ihm Schwierigkeiten. Er
He could read twentieth-century printed Latin and, to a fair extent, speak Church Latin. But the stylistic flourishes of the fourteenth century—particularly the club ascenders, those tall verticals on such letters as "k" and "i" and "h"—stuck up before his eyes like the spears of a miniature army, and to him the whole page looked like a scribble of lines painstakingly drawn by somebody of kindergarten age.
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